Leopold Unger 1922-2011
Journalist and essayist Leopold Unger passed away on the 20th of December, 2011 in Brussels at the age of 89.
Leopold Unger, Photo: Piotr Droździk / East News
Journalist and essayist Leopold Unger passed away on the 20th of December, 2011 in Brussels at the age of 89
Leopold Unger was born in 1922 in Lviv, then part of Poland. He emigrated to Romania during the war and later worked as a journalist and foreign correspondent. In March 1968 he and his family emigrated to Belgium, where he began working at the daily newspaper Le Soir. In effect, he began his journalistic career from scratch at the age of 47, writing in English and French. He soon gained renown as a specialist on Eastern Europe. He wrote for the Paris-based expatriate publication Kultura under the pseudonym Brukselczyk and worked with Radio Free Europe, BBC News and the International Herald Tribune. In Poland he worked for the Gazeta Wyborcza daily.
Leopold Unger was also a prolific author, known for such books as "Le Grand Retour" (1977) and "Intruder" (2001).
Le Soir shared the information about Unger's passing on the paper's website, honouring the writer for his four decades of service as a columnist and commentator. He had been battling cancer for a number of years before succumbing to the disease. In 2009, Leopold Unger received an honorary doctorate from the Maria Curie Sklodowska University in Lublin and the Polish PEN Club prize.
Source: PAP, Culture.pl
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